This article is sponsored by ECOFACTOR.
ECOFACTOR, a European hardware manufacturer, Charge Point Management System, charging app provider, and Ukrainian Charge Point Operator, is making a decisive shift in 2026 – stepping into full-scale charge point operations across Europe – launching over 300 charging locations across Poland, deploying its first Charging Hubs in the UK this summer, expanding operations in Romania, and building a network of Energy Hubs along Ukraine’s major highways.
Across all markets, the company is designing its new infrastructure to serve both passenger electric vehicles and electric trucks. This move positions ECOFACTOR in direct competition with established European CPOs; however, with a structural advantage, a few of them share end-to-end control over hardware, software, network operations, and energy systems, all built on a decade of proven operational experience.
Many brands speak about resilience, independence, and sustainability. Far fewer have proven those principles in practice. However, for ECOFACTOR, it has been a LIVED REALITY.
Founded in 2015, ECOFACTOR has grown from a single EV conversion project in Odesa into a global charging infrastructure company operating across 15 countries, including Spain, Italy, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Egypt, the United Kingdom, and Canada, cooperating with international partners like Amazon, BMW, ŠKODA, Octopus Electroverse, Hubject, Parkopedia, Verge Motorcycles, and Megawatt Energy.
Back to the Future: From an EV Enthusiast’s Experiment to an Engineering Philosophy
ECOFACTOR’s origins echo a familiar Silicon Valley narrative. Like Apple, Amazon, Google, Disney, and Hewlett-Packard, the company’s journey began in a garage.
That early project shaped the company’s future engineering philosophy: build practical solutions, rely on internal expertise, and remove external dependencies wherever possible. This mindset, focused on autonomy, reliability and end-to-end control, continues to define ECOFACTOR’s approach today.
Energy independent production facility
Today, ECOFACTOR’s headquarters, one of the production lines (as well as another manufacturing facility is in Poland, as the company follows the business strategy of global reach, local touch) and service operations are based in Odesa. The facility houses a closed-loop production cycle that covers design, R&D, manufacturing, assembly, testing, and preparation for international delivery. What distinguishes Ukrainian sites is energy architecture.
The manufacturing facility operates with a rooftop solar power plant and an integrated battery energy storage system, thus giving it the ability to function independently of the public grid.
Scaling Beyond Hardware: The Platform Strategy
After launching mass production of AC charging stations in 2016 and completing early DC fast-charging tests, ECOFACTOR expanded into software. In 2017, the company launched development of its own driver mobile application (which today unites more than 350k EV drivers) and charge point management system, transforming its business model from a hardware manufacturer into a turnkey infrastructure provider. Today, the ECOFACTOR management platform connects 5k charging ports and up to 800 CPOs from 15 countries, including such partners and clients as:
- Energy and Utilities
- Fleet and Logistics Operations (destination and depot)
- (Fuel) Retail/Highways/Auto Dealership
- Municipalities and the Public Sector/Federal Facilities/Education
- Residential and Commercial Facilities/Workplace
- Entertainment, sports, and leisure centres.
What underpins ECOFACTOR’s confidence in the European CPO push is what the company calls its “Charge Point Operator DNA”. Unlike competitors that developed their platforms under laboratory conditions, ECOFACTOR’s CPMS was forged in the most demanding operational environment imaginable, keeping a charging network running across Ukraine during an active conflict through grid instability, infrastructure attacks, and supply chain disruption.
That experience shaped a platform built around real-time monitoring and remote diagnostics, dynamic load balancing, flexible multi-currency tariff management, automated billing and predictive maintenance analytics. It is offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to third-party CPOs, meaning ECOFACTOR simultaneously operates its network and powers hundreds of other operators globally.
Operating through crisis, and growing globally
In 2022, the company’s resilience faced the most severe test. At the time of the full-scale invasion in 2022, ECOFACTOR had already been operating in international markets such as Moldova and the United Kingdom since 2020.
Just before the invasion, ECOFACTOR signed a supply contract for Amazon in the Czech Republic. Despite the wartime conditions, the company manufactured and delivered all the stations stipulated in the contract on time.
Paradoxically enough, 2022 was a turning point for ECOFACTOR’s international growth: that same year, an agreement was reached with Megawatt Energy, which today is one of the leaders in the EV market in Uzbekistan. The very same year, the company entered the UK market, growing beyond mainland Europe.
In January 2025, ECOFACTOR presented a new DC Media Charging Station at CES in Las Vegas. The system combines fast DC charging with two high-definition digital screens, positioning the charging infrastructure as both an energy asset and a media platform while incorporating accessibility-first design principles.
Social Responsibility as a Business Principle
The ECOFACTOR has placed a significant emphasis on social effects. In 2020, the company introduced USEC (Ukrainian Social Electric Car), the country’s first electric vehicle intended exclusively for those with limited mobility.
Following the commencement of a full-fledged war in 2022, ECOFACTOR and its partner CPOs provided free EV charging, initially for all customers but eventually prioritising military vehicles and volunteer organisations. This support lasted for over 2.5 years.
In 2025, ECOFACTOR announced the 0% Transaction Fees initiative, which temporarily removed transaction fees for Ukrainian CPOs using the ECOFACTOR charge point management system. Company data shows that the effort increased operator income by over £510,956 (₴30,000,000).
Market positioning
ECOFACTOR’s charging units are European-certified, with manufacturing concentrated in Ukraine and Poland. This localisation enables pricing that undercuts major European brands, such as ABB, Kempower, and Alpitronic, while maintaining compliance with EU regulatory standards.
By the end of 2025, ECOFACTOR reported approaching global leaders in terms of total energy delivered through its charging network, a metric increasingly used to assess real-world infrastructure impact.
ECOFACTOR is currently a major eMSP and CPO in Ukraine, with a market share of about 31%. Now the company is developing its footprint as a charging network operator that delivers quality from CPO to CPO in the UK and Europe.
In the United Kingdom, ECOFACTOR has been active since 2020 and is currently selling DC fast chargers and AC stations to UK site hosts, CPOs and fleet operators. The company’s European-certified hardware, manufactured in Europe (at Ukrainian and Polish manufacturing facilities), offers price points that challenge established brands – facilitated by its integrated production model.
At EV Charge Live UK in September 2025, ECOFACTOR demonstrated an AC station that had survived conditions no test laboratory could simulate: the unit had proven itself bombproof during the conflict in Ukraine.
This summer, the company is taking its UK presence to a new level with the launch of its first Charging Hubs designed to serve both passenger EVs and electric trucks, combining high-power DC charging with scalability to grow alongside the commercial vehicle market.
As networks scale and grid constraints intensify (blackouts in Spain, Germany and Ukraine) resilience, energy independence and platform integration are becoming even more important.
In 2025, the company launched the development of a nationwide network of energy hubs to transform EV charging into a new model of energy resilience – solar-powered hubs that charge vehicles, stabilise the grid, and keep communities powered even during outages.In Ukraine, 52 Energy Hubs are creating a highway backbone of energy-independent charging. More than 300 locations are building a nationwide network in Poland.
ECOFACTOR’s journey has proven that resilience is a lived principle and a way of doing business through war, unstable grids, and rapid international growth. Delivering contracts during a full-scale invasion, expanding into the UK, Europe, and Central Asia, presenting new charging units at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, and starting to charge 0% transaction fees to help Ukrainian operators are all signs of a long-term socially responsible vision. The businesses that grow under harsh conditions will be the ones that can handle uncertainty. That’s ECOFACTOR from the very start up until today.
